What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

Truth and reconciliation' are always combined, but I would split them: I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.

There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

Politics is compromise.

I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context in which she holds her power has now radically altered.

Don’t wait for a perfect day. To make it a perfect day, dance the whole day, sing every hour, and love every moment

Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.

Not all books are created equally, but, all books are created.

It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us.

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.

Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

I think books can give rise to empowerment.

No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.

Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking. In reality all is here and now and all is one. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only.

I do not in the least object to a sport because it is rough.